It was a blast having Dan Souza in the studio. Dan is the chief content officer of ⁠America’s Test Kitchen⁠ and the former editor in chief of Cooks Illustrated. Dan has such a great style in the way he talks about home cooking, and we discuss his time working in food media before digging into a very cool and ambitious new drinks book: ⁠Cocktails Illustrated: 400+ Recipes for the Home Bartender, from Spirit Forward to Zero Proof⁠. 

And, at the top of the show, it’s the return of Three Things, where Aliza and Matt talk about what is exciting them in the world of restaurants, cookbooks, and the food world as a whole. On this episode: ⁠Motek⁠ is blowing up in NYC, ⁠Katerina⁠ is a Greek pop-up in NYC to follow, Claire Saffitz’s ⁠Pineapple Upside Down Cake ice cream collab⁠ with Salt & Straw is redic. So good. Also: ⁠Dashi Okume⁠ in Brooklyn is a great place to visit for lunch or a custom dashi blend, a reminder that ⁠Superiority Burger⁠ is NYC’s best restaurant, another reminder: the French onion soup brioche at ⁠Little Egg⁠ in Brooklyn is the perfect savory pastry.

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